Stamped Sunshine: Create a Coastal Summer Card with VersaFine Clair

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Imagine

By Ceal Pritchett

Hello crafty friends. It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a beachy card using some summer colors. When I think beach, I think lighthouses because the beach we go to has one on it.

Skill level: Intermediate to advanced
Time: An hour or more

Directions:

Gather your supplies. You will need a beach themed stamp, stencil and dies. Several colors of inks. Post-it notes or masking paper and a fine liner pen.

Step 1:

Die cut the postage stamp panel. This must be cut first with this particular set because you line up the stitched lines.

Step 2:

Place the stencil over the panel, lining up the stitched part, I circled it so you could see what I am referencing. Mask off other areas of the card so you don’t get ink on it. Ink blend green ink for the grass. Remove and clean the stencil

Step 3:

Mask off the grass and ink blend blue for the ocean. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 4:

Mask off the ocean. Ink blend brown for the sand, remove and clean the stencil.

Step 5:

Mask off the bottom portion of the stencil. Ink blend Yellow for the sun rays. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 6:

Ink blend red for the lighthouse. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 7:

Be sure to mask off portions of the card that may get inky. Place the stencil down where the sun is in the white space that was left after blending the sunrays. Ink blend orange in the circle and also at the base of the sunrays. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 8: (optional)

This step s totally optional but I like the way it grounds the lighthouse. Place stencil back over the lighthouse and use a fine liner pen to trace the stripes.

Step 9:

Stamp the greeting in blue and the 25 cents in black. Not pictured in this photo but you will need to die cut the flower and add it to the corner as shown in the finished card.

Craft Supplies:

Imagine Products

VersaFine Clair:
Strawberry, Summertime, Cheerful, Grass Green, Blue Belle, Bali Blue, Sand Dune and Nocturne

Other products

Seaside Post Stamp set – Concord & 9^th
Seaside Stencil – Concord & 9^th
Seaside dies – Concord & 9^th
Fine Liner Pen

Quick and Easy “Sending Love” Card with Memento

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Imagine

By Ceal Pritchett

Hey there crafty friends!
Hi, it’s Ceal! Today I’m sharing a simple ink technique to create a beautiful card.

Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 30 minutes

Directions:

Gather your supplies. You will need an acrylic block of any size, silhouette stamp (could be any stamp but Silhouettes look best with the technique), any color of ink pad that is water based, VersaFine Nocturne ink pad and a water spritzer bottle.

Step 1 :
Ink up the block with water-based ink and spritz with water.

Step 2:
Place inked block down on a water friendly panel of paper.
The paper I used is Tim Holtz’ white Heavystock.

Step 3:
Ink up the silhouette stamp with a black ink that gives good coverage like VersaFine Clair Nocturne and stamp image partially over the background.

Step 4:
Ink up the sentiment with VersaFine Clair Nocturne and stamp to the left of the image underneath it.

Supply List:

Imagine Crafts Products
Memento Lulu Lavender
VersaFine Clair Nocturne
On Point Glue

Other Products
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – Simon Says Stamp
White Heavystock – Tim Holtz/Ranger
Floral Imprints Stamp set – Hero Arts
Acrylic Block

Painting Using Sheer Shimmer Craft Sprays

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Imagine

By LV Handcrafted

Hello friends! This is Linh (or LV Handcrafted on all the socials). Here’s a fun way to use Shimmer Sprays — paint with them! Shimmer Sprays are translucent, but the gorgeous glitter in them shine beautifully on dark card stock! I used the Sparkle Sheer Shimmer spray, which paired perfectly with the Iridescent Opaque Mboss powder. The combination of the two add a striking, sparkle to any card!

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 15 minutes

Supplies Used

Other Products Used

Altenew – Fashion Monger Dahlia Stamp

Create A “Thinking of You” Shimmery Sunset Card Using Fireworks! Sprays

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Imagine

By Katy Ingram

Hello Friends! Katy here and today I am using my Fireworks! Sprays to create a blended sunset or sunrise background for my palm tree die cut.

In todays video tutorial I am use Fireworks! Sprays in Dandelion, Lady Bug and Rose Bud with my 1 inch wide watercolor brush to create a blended sunset. The golden shimmer from the Fireworks! Sprays is just beautiful and compliments this color blend perfectly. I kept the sentiment simple with thinking of you, but ANY sentiment will go with this design. The video below has all the details, check it out below.

Katy

Skill: Advanced

Time: 15 minutes

Art Supplies

Imagine Products

Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Sprays

Dandelion
Lady Bug
Rose Bud

VersaFine Onyx Black

Tear It! Tape

Other Products Used

Arches Hot Pressed Watercolor Paper (Fern Background)

Accent Opaque 100lb White (card base)

Black 65# card stock (palm tree frame)

Spray Adhesive

Watercolor brush 1 inch flat

Learn to Make a “Thinking of You” Sunflower Card

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Imagine

By Neva Cole –

Versa Clair Fine is now my favorite pigment ink! So versatile and allowed me to create a beautifully colored card in just a few steps. This is one of the few cards that my husband has asked me to specifically make for a friend, it was easy to do with just a few inks, stamps, and dies!

Skill: Intermediate

Time: 2 hours

Directions:

Step 1:

Stamp sunflower images on yellow cardstock with Versa Fine Clair Cheerful and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Stamp leaf images on light green paper in Versa Fine Clair Green Oasis and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Die cut with matching dies.

Step 2:

Place flowers and leaves face down in matching shaping mold and mist lightly with water. As the images are heat embossed, they will stay sharp and crisp. Close mold and pressure emboss.

Step 3:

Remove flowers and leaves from mold and set aside to dry. Once dry assemble flowers with On Point Glue, adding black glitter to centers. (Not shown) Set aside to dry.

Step 4:

Ink the edges of an A7 size card with and ink dauber and Versa Fine Clair Green Oasis. Set aside to dry, as the ink is very juicy.

Step 5:

Sunflowers are a rustic flower, so corrugated cardstock seemed to be a good choice for a background. Versa Fine Clair in Cheerful and Summertime are inked randomly on the corrugated cardstock with ink daubers.

Step 6:

Ink the sentiment with Versa Fine Clair in Green Oasis and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Die cut with die from the Eyelet Frame Gateway set. I trimmed off a portion of the sentiment, then edged the sentiment with Versa Fine Clair in Summertime.